The NFL is getting hammered after another game was played in a half-empty stadium

“Thursday Night Football” gave football fans something of a surprise as the San Francisco 49ers hosted the Los Angeles Rams at Levi’s Stadium in a barn-burner of a football game, ending with an enthralling fourth quarter by the Niners before falling just short of completing the comeback.

The Rams’ 41-39 victory was a shootout — and some of the most exciting “Thursday Night Football” fans had seen in recent memory, featuring a successful onside-kick attempt, late turnovers, and a backdoor cover that sent gamblers home either elated or furious…

But the game also served as a reminder of one of the NFL’s recent woes: poor attendance.

Shots of the stadium, like the one above, made clear that attendance was dismal for the primetime game. Despite claims that attendance was over 70,000, anyone with eyes could see that the stadium was largely empty, with even some of the best seats in the lower bowl left untaken.

As SFGate noted, tickets were available on secondary markets for just $14 — about the price of a beer and hot dog inside the stadium. And still, few people found the time to support the Niners in person.

The average Trump voter/supporter nods his head in agreement. With Trump. The average neutral voter who is fed up with all the PC nonsense outside of politics also finds himself/herself agreeing with Trump.

Sorry, Jemele honey, but if the NFL owners can’t fill the seats and tv contracts get cancelled, they’ll file for bankruptcy and those multi-million dollar contracts will be worthless. Lots of folks depend on the revenues from the NFL, but the NFL needs an AUDIENCE. Pi$$ off ordinary, patriotic Americans and we will walk away- as we’re doing right now. No one looks at men like Kapernick and sees a victim. I agree with rduke007!

I just don’t get the protests. I know it’s an offshoot of BLM and a claim that America is inherently racist, but seeing Black millionaires protesting in the NFL where 70% of all players are Black, just seems comical and entirely agenda driven. It lacks the oppression to give the protest legitimacy.

i suspect that most people who enjoy seeing sports are NOT the LibRules. The best thing that can happen to MAGA is to boycott these ‘games’ and if you do attend, walkout and demand your money back – you expected a game not a political statement.

btw – the claim for high attendance, is due to season ticket holders, who are NOT showing up for the game.

I stopped watching NFL football last year actually altogether. I do not watch ESPN anymore either. There are so many other wonderful things to do with your time and enjoying life away from the cable tv is liberating.

Keep it up fools you still have a long way to drop. Over a cretin like Kaepernick, aka the shoe king, who isn’t even good enough to play in the NFL anymore. Leaves him lots of time to stroke his room full of shoes.

IN a sport, profession, and business built firmly on meritocracy we are seeing “social justice” creep in as a compensatory factor for poor performance. Even when listening to ESPN on the field performance is foremost in discussion. Free agency and players issues have primarily dealt with compensation for performance. The NFL and Players’ Association are corroding their business with petty issues unrelated to football. Social justice is a lure to appeal to the younger crowd to gain viewership for the future. Minorities may be “over represented” in their business model but are not enough to pay the bills. They are playing toward their view of the changing social landscape they see. As for the Thursday night game….both teams are not premier at this time…also costs to go to games is high. People want value and those teams do not give it.

Wow, it turns out that working-class Americans don’t enjoy seeing lavishly-paid, semi-literate, self-aggrandizing pro athletes espousing anti-police and anti-American radical Leftist views, when they should instead be counting their blessings that they live in a country where they can amass such wealth in compensation for their “skills.”

NFL is all male, mostly black and almost completely non Asian. They need to concentrate on diversity and gender equality. Until Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is playing quarterback and Rosie O’Donnell is an offensive end (she is half way there already), the players social justice card does not have enough punch holes.

Looks like far more tickets were sold than people who attended the game.

Looks like the ticket scalpers and season ticket holders who tried to sell their tickets took a big hit. The laws of (non-Marxist) economics being what they are, the owners will eventually start seeing a big decline in ticket sales. They are already seeing a huge decline in concessions revenue.

I loved the line (ignored) about the game being ruined by calls and new rules. He mentioned the “good hit” and it was immediately flagged. Trump just touched a nerve… and in a college football state… The NFL is not what it used to be. Sad.

I think you may have spoken too soon. Lebron James has just called for an NBA boycott of the WH and called Trump bad names. I don’t think there is anything anyone can do with these fools. They are paid by middle America and that group is not liberal. If they keep on insulting us who do they think is going to buy their tickets or watch TV games?

I know any number of suburban moms who have decided that their sons shall not play football because of the concussion and CTE issue.

I enjoy watching football with the athleticism, the planning, and the drama. I’ll cheer the players.

But I WON’T cheer gladiators. This isn’t a coliseum with blood sport to the death. If the NFL can’t fix the CTE issue, there’s going to lose — not just fans like me, but the next generation of players.

“I know any number of suburban moms who have decided that their sons shall not play football because of the concussion and CTE issue.”

In case you haven’t noticed, that’s not football’s recruiting pool. Period. Full Stop. It will be an interesting question whether suburbia can continue to be coerced into paying the taxes that support it at the high school level….

Is your inner social justice warrior advocating that dead people should be diversityed into the NFL? Other than Kandyperky, or whatever his name is, there are far more dead people voting in elections than are playing in the NFL. The NFL should “look” like America, or at least the Chicago registered voters.

The players have a right to protest, they do not have a right to co-opt a platform (the game) they do not own. Everyone reading this is probably familiar with the NFL’s statement during every televised game that the game is the “property” of the NFL. Nobody has a right to use another’s property for any purpose without the property owner’s consent.

What’s galling about this is Goodell’s insistence that there’s nothing he and the league can do, when the league regularly disciplines players for on- and off-field conduct. The only reason the players haven’t been disciplined is because they are almost all black and their grievance is about race. No white player protesting for a conservative cause would have been allowed to commandeer an NFL game as have the “kneelers”.

The league must assert its property rights over the game and inform the players that their conduct, all of their conduct, no matter the conduct’s purpose, on-field during the NFL’s production of a football game is subject to league review and potential disciplinary action. Had this been almost any other sort of conduct, or for any other purpose or cause, the league would have put an end to this nonsense within hours of Kaepernick taking a knee.

I think the League should have the decency to rename itself. National Football League is just a teensie bit inappropriate if they can’t handle the rituals customarily associated with the national flag. The word National should be reserved for those who mean it.

If they can think of another word beginning with “N” they won’t have to change all their monogrammed stuff.

So what would keep the NFL from doing the sensible thing and just ‘vanishing’ all of the players doing their little hissy-fits. Orders to the camera crews to turn away during the anthem when players take the knee, orders to the scene techs to cut away from any kneeling players, and instructions to the announcers that if they mention players taking a knee today, it will be their last game they broadcast for the next several years.

Take away their water, and let the dumb fish flop around unnoticed in the dirt while the rest of us enjoy the game.

The league’s descent into irrelevance began for me last year when the Cowboys were denied the opportunity to memorialize the five murdered Dallas police officers with something in their uniforms last summer.

It is why I will never watch another NFL game.

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